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The only video library that AGS is linked to on Linux is libtheora, so I would say if at all, only Theora videos can work.

What about Android builds? Wouldn't it be nice anyway to offer an apk of stable releases?

It should be possible to install a real Linux like Ubuntu (that runs Allegro) next to Chrome OS.

If it's possible to compile normal Linux programs on Chrome OS, you will have to compile some of the dependencies (like allegro) first.

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Cool! One of the games that one could test with is Barn Runner 5, chapter 1. It uses Kweepa's AGS_OtherRoom.dll and Scorpiorus' ags_parallax.dll both of which are not ported as far as I know.

The script expects the game to be in the data directory, as is well documented:
https://github.com/adventuregamestudio/ags/blob/master/debian/ags%2Blibraries/README

Next time rtfm before throwing around angry smileys.

Why don't you just do this in a way that the theme can be switched and send the patch (or pull request) to the others to review and include?

It doesn't really convince me. In general ALSA over pulseaudio works so this must be fixable in Allegro or AGS. He added an SDL2 audio driver to Allegro, which will probably never go upstream. If someone would add a PulseAudio driver to Allegro, that could probably go upstream eventually.

And a linux version should be necessary for the game to be added to the DB, even if the editor is run under windows only and the game is compiled under windows and the author is a windows nerd and linux hater and wants to distribute only a windows version to convert everyone to a windows user

I don't know why the key is missing but
http://marek.php5.sk/?p=150

Which errors? Did you follow the instructions?

It's built using the script debian/make_ags+libraries.sh on Debian or Ubuntu (see comments in the file for instructions) and of course it should be built with the latest code if you want to make a release.

Or the builds are put on the homepage, where they belong.

I just installed alex4 from the official repos. It uses allegro 4 and also has broken sound. Can you confirm that?

It should always be ALSA unless it was changed in the Allegro config file. But getting an ALSA message doesn't prove it's not using OSS: On Linux OSS uses ALSA nowadays. It's just an API that exist across Unixes as opposed to ALSA which is Linux only.

This is the most stupid thing I've ever seen to encode these Ids like that...

They are for ALSA: 1095521089
and OSSD: 1330860868

EDIT: Ok, you've also computed them in the meantime. ALSA and OSS digital are the only ones worth trying though. I think the others are disabled in Allegro by default nowadays.

EDIT2: I get jittered sound with both. I don't know if that actually causes the engine to use OSS though.

I don't think so. Some things in acsetup.cfg only make sense on Windows so they're not read on Linux. DirectSound is a Windows thing. It has worked before, so some change in the sound code must have caused this bug.

Ok I'll keep quiet as long as the versions are strictly increasing. I find this scheme much more weird than what I proposed though.

Ok but I thought we wanted to get rid of the final and hotfix suffices. So no suffix would correspond to a stable release.

Now the tags are:

3.4.0.0-alpha1
3.4.0.1-alpha2

You can get rid of either of the last two numbers. Either

3.4.0.0-alpha
3.4.0.1-alpha

or

3.4.0-alpha1
3.4.0-alpha2

would be fine. Or am I missing something? I like the last variant better.